From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1996/12/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 206995846 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <5aa73v$p14@news3.digex.net> followup-to: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1996-12-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <5aa73v$p14@news3.digex.net> ell@access5.digex.net (Ell) writes: > Ian Joyner (i.joyner@acm.org) wrote: > : Ell wrote: > : > > : > Ian Joyner (i.joyner@acm.org) wrote: > : > > : > : What made me think of this was that Bill Gates stated in his book that > : > : Boeng designed the entire 777 aircraft using one gigantic electronic > : > : document! Physical engineering disciplines have made good use of > : > : computing technology, it's about time software engineers followed > : > : the same path... better and more productive languages and environments, > : > : and stop defending archaic 25 year old languages from another era. > > : > I find some 25 year languages like C++ very useful even today. A lot of > : > following a good OO paradigm is in how tools are used and approached. > > : And people can still drive model T Fords, and fly WWI planes. > > I find the key aspects of C++ to be within the parameters of the > _progressive_ OO paradigm and practice. In many ways C++ has led and > still leads in the expression and implementation of many significantly > useful OO concepts. With respect to this "led/leads" claim: Such as????? I can't think of _any_ where this is true. Though I can think of at least one important _implementation_ aspect where this seems to be true. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com